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Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by ecopoesis on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:15PM (#25965349)
They must have been fancy to use PCI. I would have expected ISA of AGP.
Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by jimsmart on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:20PM (#25965365)
PCI was in fact pretty standard for graphics cards, in the period between ISA and AGP.

Edit: link https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/graphics-beginners,1...

Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by barrkel on Friday January 29, 2021 @09:51PM (#25965542)
PCI graphics was standard around the time of Windows 3.11 and into Windows 95. Major difference in UI speed vs EISA graphics.

I used to work as a hardware technician in a local computer shop as a summer / weekend job back then. I installed dozens of 4mb Cirrus Logic PCI graphics cards when building PCs.

Re:Apple Silicon M1 supports “billion of colors” a.k.a. HDR ... by jzer0cool on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:25AM (#25966771)
If I remember, AGP did not come out until later.

The motherboard multiple ISA and 1 PCI slot if I recall right. In fact I was testing VGA and also sound cards on the ISA slot. So checking sound and playing some mpeg video file.

I can maybe write up a short post about this if anyone would be interested more.

At home, away from work, I owned a mac which was running the power pc processor. And that was also 25 mhz. What I remember was how everything seemed integrated (e.g. not upgradable. Young me could not understand why there was no graphics card. I could only upgrade here the hard drive, or simm memory)